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Joeyob32

Joeyob32

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Hi guys,
So I recently got my first ever crossfirex system up and running, 2X R9 270X on an MSI 970 Gaming Mobo and a FX8350...thing is, i stupidly thought -pc1600 meant 1600mhz ram.
So I went into the bios and pushed the ram to 1600mhz, (thing only had 4gb to begin with) and naturally one of them is now broken, luckily one of them survived so it still turned on.

My question is though, that before the ram went, the top GPU (the one connected to the mobo) would light up the side led all the time, while the other would only light when it was needed (games etc).

But now, only one of the cards is showing up on the deviced, even though they are both connected, but the leds on both of them are clearly lit up constantly.

Im hoping that the card isnt being recognised as my system is so low on ram, but Im kinda hoping someone can confirm this, and that I didnt damage a gpu in my tinkering.

Thanks in advance, please dont be too harsh for my stupid, stupid move ha.

Cheers
 
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Just for some more information you should unplug the card you believe is working ok and run a single GPU with the possible "dead" GPU. Basically just do your best to isolate the problem. If you have another rig lying around (if you built for someone else or something like that) trying plugging it into that one. The MOBO could also be the issue (though it does seem like the GPU is the likely culprit.)
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Just for some more information you should unplug the card you believe is working ok and run a single GPU with the possible "dead" GPU. Basically just do your best to isolate the problem. If you have another rig lying around (if you built for someone else or something like that) trying plugging it into that one. The MOBO could also be the issue (though it does seem like the GPU is the likely culprit.)
 
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There's a couple of things I would do in this situation:

1. If your motherboard is able to run on the onboard video, try taking out your GPU(s) and running solely on the onboard video. That would determine a faulty GPU.

2. From there if you can get into the BIOS reset your motherboard and run on default settings. If it can boot successfully on default settings then the culprit there is a bad calculation in the overclock settings. Some motherboards do an.automatic shut down as a safety precaution in the event of a bad overclock setting.
 
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Seems to be working okay now, I think it was just something <removed> with the bios when the ram popped, I just swapped the cards around and now they are both working perfectly, thanks guys

Watch the language. - G
 
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